Big Night

Prova.

Mmm. Eh?

C'e bisogno di pui sale? What?

More salt? No.

Not too fine, eh.

Sometimes you cut it too fine, then all you taste is the garlic.

Okay.

Let's go, five minutes, eh. Io sono pronto.

Cristiano, let's go. Hurry up. Chop-chop.

We open in five minutes. Oh, my God.

Mucho trabajo y poco dinero.

Remind me tomorrow to call the plumber to come back so I can kill him.

Are we ready? I'm ready half an hour.

Wait, the risotto.

Yes, go.

Oh, thank God. Okay, here we go.

Oh, I'm just so hungry.

Signore.

Oh, that looks good. You got leaves with yours.

Here we go.

Okay.

Monsieur, is this what I ordered?

Yes, that is the risotto.

Is a special recipe that my brother and I bring from Italy. It's delicious, I promise.

It took so long, I thought you went all the way back to Italy to get it.

Yes, I know, but it's worth it. I-I-I-I promise.

You would like, uh, fresh pepper or cheese? No, I don't need cheese.

Cheese, yeah. Oh yeah, he likes cheese.

Excuse me, didn't you say that this was gonna be rice with seafood?

Uh, yes.

It is, uh, Italian arborio rice, the best.

And then, uh, with shrimp and scallop and...

I just don't see anything that looks like a shrimp or a scallop.

I just, well... I mean, it's not what I expected.

But I get a side order of spaghetti with this, right?

- Why? Well, no. - I thought all main courses come with spaghetti.

Well, some, yes, but you see,

risotto is rice, so it is a starch,

- and it doesn't go really with pasta. - But I don't...

Honey, order the side of spaghetti, that's all.

I'll eat your meatballs. He'll have the meatballs.

Well, uh, the spaghetti comes without meatballs.

There are no meatballs with the spaghetti?

No, sometimes spaghetti likes to be alone.

All right, then, I guess that we'll also have a side order of meatballs.

Side order of meatballs. This is fine. Let's just eat.

All right, no meatballs. Then we'll just have a side order of spaghetti.

Primo, please, just, come on.

I want to know for who.

Just make the side order of spaghetti, please.

Secondo, I want to know for who it is for.

For the lady with the risotto.

What? Why?

She like starch. I don't know. Come on! Bitch.

I'll make it myself. Nah!

Who are these people in America?

I need to talk to her.

Oh, please, Primo, what are you going to do?

Tell the customer what she can eat, huh? That is what she want.

This is what the customer asked for. Make it.

Make the pasta. Make it. Make it. Make the pasta.

- Come on, let's go! - How can she want? They both are starch.

Maybe I should make mashed potato for another side.

Primo, don't, okay, because they are the first customers to come in two hours.

The fucking pipes are... No, she's a criminal. I want to talk to her.

You want to talk to her? Okay, that's great.

You want to talk to her? Okay, good, fine.

I'm sick of this every fucking night. You want to talk to her?

Okay, here we go.

Go talk to her.

No, she's a philistine.

I'm not gonna talk to her. She no understand anyway.

It will be just a moment. Thank God, we didn't come on a night it was full.

Good morning. Please, sit down.

Thank you very much. Cigarette?

Oh, yes, thank you.

Thank you. So it is completely different here than when I was before.

Well, it's a beautiful renovation.

Because we went through that with our restaurant when we first started.

- It's a lot of work. It's a lot of money. - Pain in the neck, you know?

But I think it come out good, you know, 'cause it's simple.

It's a very simple place for the family to come.

Very nice, casual.

- You like Italian food, right? - Yes, I do, very much.

I'm gonna have to change the direction of this conversation right now.

Ah, yes, I understand. Okay.

Is there someone you can borrow from back in, uh, back home?

No, because we did that already to come here.

You have any saleable assets?

Something to sell, like a car, for money, to pay us.

Oh, oh, yes, I understand. I wasn't sure you...

No, no, no, no, I speak English.

Ah, no, I don't. My car, no.

I have a car, but it's no Cadillac, you know.

I need my car, uh, for the business, so, no. I see.

I don't know, uh.

Your payments over the past two years have hardly been consistent.

Yes, I know.

I'm afraid we can't give you any more time.

What do you mean? We can't give you any more time.

Okay, Mr. Pierce, let me just explain something to you, okay?

I'll explain my situation to you, which is unusual, all right?

I don't want to bother you, but, uh...

Listen, my brother is, uh...

It's a difficult situation because what we try to do...

Look, look, listen, is very hard, we work very hard.

I hate to see businesses fail, okay? We are not lazy.

I hate to see businesses fail, okay? Yes, me too.

But we're a bank. We can't help people who can't help themselves.

If we don't receive your payment by the end of the month, we will foreclose.

Thank you very much. Sure.

I wish I could pay you with money.

Oh, money? Please, what would I do with money?

Thank you. I have to go now.

Thank you for the painting.

Well, this is the biggest one.

Good night. Good night.

Good night, Stash. Good night, Secondo.

See what he give us, huh?

Look, it's landscape.

See? Don't you love it?

Great. Put it with the rest of them.

Primo, let me ask you something.

What do you think if we take risotto off the menu?

Primo?

What do you think about that, huh?

Take risotto off the menu.

I'm sorry. What did you say?

Forget it.

No, no, I don't hear what-what you say. Tell me what you say.

Well, it's just that...

risotto costs us a lot.

And it take you a long time to make.

I mean, you have to work so hard to make, you know?

And then, we have to charge more, so...

I think take it away.

Sure. Good.

Really? Yeah, that's good.

Oh, yeah. Okay.

All right.

Maybe, instead, we could put...

Yes, tell me, tell me.

Well, I was thinking...

Hmm, what, what do they call it?

You know, it's... Come se dice?

Manicotti? No.

Is a hot dog? Hot dog. Hot dog!

Yeah, hot dogs.

Maybe people would like that.

Those.

Fine.

If you give people time, they learn.

Well, I don't have time for them to learn.

This is a restaurant, not a fucking school.

It's busy again tonight.

The man should be in prison for the food he serves.

People love it.

Good night. Where you go?

To see Phyllis.

Ah, say hi for me, eh?

Okay.

You go, uh, out?

Yes. Where?

Out, to a movie. Ah.

You want to come?

Why? No, I go see Alberto.

Okay. What is the movie?

You want to come? Come on, want to come? No, I do not.

Come on, call up the flower lady. What's her name?

Ann, Ann, Ann? Who?

Double date? Who?

Why would I call her?

I don't know. Alberto said that you and she were...

What? You know.

He said that? Yeah.

It's no secret. Take you longer each time when you go to buy the flowers.

Well, I do not grab just any flower.

I like to pick the right one.

But don't take too long. Someone else might pick the one you want.

Good night.

Why would Secondo say you said something and you say you said nothing?

Salute.

No, no-no, no. W-W-What's the matter?

Phyllis, no, I can't. You can't. Why?

I can't.

No, I can't. Honey, I can't. Why? Why?

No, I can't. I don't want to.

I just get sad. Sad?

- Yes. - Honey, "sad" is the wrong word.

Well, no, I don't mean sad, but I mean, you know,

it just, it gets me all jazzed up, you know?

And then I want to go to my place, but I can't go there.

Well, you know, I have to go crazy.

We don't have to...

I mean, you know, we've done other things.

I know, I know, I know.

Well, so what's the problem?

I know. I just want it to be...

I can't, I can't. No.

I just want it to be, for you and me to be,